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3 Reasons You Need a Digital ESG Strategy

First, let’s define ESG The year 2004 marked the beginning of a new era of responsible investment. The term “ESG” was coined in a United Nations report to provide a framework for systematically evaluating the environmental, social, and governance dimensions of investments. While Socially Responsible Investment (SRI) has a

Impact Data in Action: Insights from Karma Healthcare

Karma Healthcare (Karma) is an impact-driven, award winning healthcare startup, working towards its mission to provide equitable access to quality primary healthcare. In July 2020, Karma and its investor, Beyond Capital, partnered with Proof to enhance Karma’s ability to conduct data-driven impact measurement and active performance management. In particular,

Impact Data to Mobilize Investment in Energy Transition

This is the second article in a series on the use of exponential technologies to track and verify environmental and social outputs in inclusive energy transition. In the introduction to this Energy Series, we discussed how non-financial KPIs such as societal and environmental outputs packaged as impact data, can attract

The Era of Impact Transparency Has Begun

Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose. To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society. Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities

ESG 2.0: Data-driven Impact Measurements that matter

When we started our sustainable investing journey in 2008, it was on the back of visiting the SKOLL World Forum and realizing that a significant amount of the world’s problems can be solved by innovative and holistic business solutions. The biggest challenge was (and continues to be) how do

Sink or Swim: Prioritize Impact or Watch Your Business Drown

How impact investors can avoid “impact washing” and not get left behind. “We are seeing dramatic changes in behaviour, which will change the behaviour of companies. The younger generation are not interested in buying products that can do harm and they are changing their choices, and investors have become aware

Trust Economics — How Smart Businesses are Using Trust to Gain an Edge over Competition

The global operating system on which all modern businesses run is built on trust. Always has been, always will be. However, the way businesses have been building (and signaling) trust has changed significantly over the years. Trust Level 1: Good Reputation For entire centuries, trust has been an extension of